Software Architect

Job summary

Responsibilities

Join the company that's building the future of AI computing. SambaNova is disrupting the AI and high-performance computing space with an integrated hardware and software platform.

• Own the end-to-end technical architecture of the SambaStack inference platform, ensuring it meets enterprise-grade standards for scalability, reliability, and performance.
• Define and drive architectural strategy across engineering teams, aligning long-term platform direction with product and business objectives.
• Lead design reviews for major new capabilities and cross-cutting system changes, providing authoritative technical guidance and raising the quality bar across the SambaStack…
• Proactively identify and resolve systemic risks, including performance bottlenecks, reliability gaps, and scaling constraints, before they impact customers.
• Establish and evolve architectural standards, patterns, and best practices across the SambaStack engineering organization.

What they're looking for

• 12+ years of software engineering experience, including significant time in a role with organization-wide technical influence.
• Proven track record of owning large-scale distributed systems architectures end-to-end from design to production.
• Expertise building backend systems in Python, Go, or Rust.
• Expert-level understanding of Kubernetes, including Operators, Helm Charts, and cluster-scale resource management.
• Strong command of distributed systems principles: consistency, fault tolerance, observability, and performance at scale.

Tech stack

• Python
• Go
• Rust
• Kubernetes